#standing

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile. ↗

— Helen Hollick

#marriage #respect #trust #understanding #love

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ↗

— Christine de Pisan

#just #men #sharper #softer #than

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#understanding #unity #business

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#free-thought #inspirational #judging #life #motivational

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen. ↗

— Marlon James

#listening #men #men-and-women #secret #toni-morrison

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works. ↗

— Thomas Rogal II

#life-lessons #magic #understanding #art

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#reading #understanding #wicked #words #change

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. ↗

— Idries Shah

#technique #understanding #motivational

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#knowledge #nature #power #understanding #wisdom

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#understanding #communication